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You should be able to buy a new TV, plug it in, hook up a cable box, and be good to go. But no. Sometimes the settings get in the way. And these days, there are so many settings.

If you don’t want to go through the sometimes-taxing process of calibrating your TV like a pro, you can still make a few quick adjustments to improve the image quality. We promise: You won’t even have to touch the brightness, contrast, and color controls. If your TV’s picture looks worse than you think it should out of the box, try these fixes first.